Chinese Canadian
North American diaspora
A Chinese Canadian is a Canadian citizen or resident of Chinese ancestry, or something relating to this community: Chinese Canadian history, the Chinese Canadian population of Vancouver.
The term encompasses both recent immigrants from China and descendants of families who have lived in Canada for generations, including those whose ancestors helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway.
- immigrantOne who resettles abroad
- diasporaScattered population sharing origins
- multiculturalIncluding multiple ethnic traditions
- VancouverMajor Canadian Pacific port
- TorontoOntario's capital city
Chinatown · heritage · bilingual · Cantonese · Mandarin · dim sum · egg tart · railway · head tax · identity · hyphenated · third culture · second-generation · bamboo ceiling · model minority · mooncake · Lunar New Year · red envelope
- Canadian Diversitycultural mosaic, multiculturalism policy, bilingualism, pluralism, First Nations
- Canadian PeoplesFirst Nations, Inuit, Metis, Cree, Ojibwe
- overseas ChineseChinatown, Chinatowns, benevolent society, benevolent societies, tong